Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:08 -0700, Nathaniel Smith 
<address@hidden> said:

njs> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:46:48AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker 
wrote:
njs> > Doesn't Botan have facilities to make such things easy?  I was under
njs> > the impression that it has...
[...]
njs> Botan also has the pieces needed to implement ad-hoc stream encryption
njs> pretty easily (as long as you don't care about rekeying and stuff
njs> like that), but really we have too much ad-hoc cryptography as it
njs> is...

Well, considering the majority of network communication done with
monotone is short sessions, I wouldn't worry too much about rekeying
and stuff like that.  Initial pull tends to be the only real exception
to this.

Cheers,
Richard

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